Part 2 of the Charlie Engle Interview: Charlie Engle went from a life of drugs to life as an endurance animal. Now 47, he has completed everything from the Raid Gauloises to the Ironman to Badwater to the Furnace Creek 508. For the documentary film Running the Sahara, he and his teammates ran 4,500 miles across the Sahara Desert in 111 days averaging over 40 miles a day. Hey, when was the last time you took only two showers in 111 days?